I'll drink to that. Sometime last spring, Sean and I climbed it w/o a #6 and later on that afternoon, somewhere over by the wedge, we were talking to another climbing group. One of the guys was surprised Sean did it groudup and exclaimed that it is a 5.9 TR and 5.11 groudup? WTF? Absolutely no offense to Sean's great lead, but I've never heard of route grades changing like that?
Guessing sport climber with no clue about climbing. I always thought the hardest thing about Y-Crack is that rock is always peeling off the thing. Take a couple of big pieces and you're basically on TR anyway.
What is the gear beta? Can you get away with a coupla #5 C4s, or is a #6 strictly necessary? I guess I could always do the honorable thing and just attempt it with what I have.
I've done it a few times and never had anything all that big. I'd think a couple of #5's would work fine. You can bump the bottom one up and then leave it, then work on the upper one. As I recall, it gets a little smaller as you go, so better have the #4, #3.5 and #3 ready too. Then some other assorted stuff for the part above the ledge.
Might be time for another lap on that thing. Been a while.
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